Actually, an alternative to Visual Studio for Linux (and other platforms) is Eclipse. It supports Java, C, C++, PHP, Python (with the Pydev plugin) and more. Coming with a "stack" or not is irrelevant. Ubuntu, for one, has all of this (OS, bindings, Eclipse, Pydev, etc) so IMO it is more integrated than Windows+Visual Studio, rather than less.
pygtk is simple to use. There are multiple development environments and languages in Windows as well, if you see a problem there it is a matter of perspective.
Still suits? The whole station is a suit. This has been done since Salyut and Mir. The stilling is done by environmental control. Elektron oxygen generators then generate oxygen by splitting it from water.
The Russian segments for ISS were launched with Proton, not Soyuz. Proton launches 46000 lb to LEO.
The Soviet Energia, if it was still in production, would have 194000 lb to LEO capability. The US Saturn V used to launch Skylab could put 165000 lb in LEO.
OpenOffice can be "commercial" if it is being distributed with a paid for Linux distro or with an Asus Eee PC for example. The fact remains that this license is more restrictive than the Adobe PDF license. I won't even mention the ODF license.
All it takes is for the download to be hosted at a website with ads for something to be considered commercial. This is little better than the MP3 or GIF licenses. This license is counter to the GPL, adding further restrictions, so any GPLed product cannot use it.
Your maths are way off. Not to mention that currently mass market available solar panels have twice that efficiency and a solar thermal power is much more efficient than that.
There are new wind plants popping up everywhere. Just do some research. There is currently a wind turbine shortage in the market. Solar thermal power has plenty of potential once it gets to mass production.
This news item is misleading and wrong in several ways: Blackswift is a DARPA proposal so it is a paper design and no prototype has been built, it does not use PDE, but ramjets and scramjets, it has turbojets to get it to ramjet speed.
Only example I know of something flying with PDE is Long-EZ and the technology still has a ways to go.
Places where the lights are on for a long time are better suited for fluorescent lighting. Make sure to get good bulbs: they last longer and end up being cheaper in the long run. The color spectrum of cheap fluorescents is usually terrible too. That should cut power consumption a lot. I do not know how is the weather where you live, but different housing construction can reduce the AC requirement a lot. Most people here live without AC.
Wikipedia says Caligari was adquired by Microsoft this year. Which is a bit weird to me, considering they bought then dumped SoftImage some years ago.
I remember trueSpace from when I had my Amiga computer. Back then it was called Caligari and had one of the easiest to use 3D modellers. Seems like RealSoft is also still around. Not to mention NewTek's LightWave of course.
RenderMan uses the scanline algorithm, but your graphics board doesn't use that. It uses the Z-Buffer algorithm. I suspect RenderMan only uses scanline for historic reasons. Scanline was mainly used when memory was expensive and RenderMan is decades old. Remember military simulators with Evans and Sutherland graphics? That was probably the last realtime hardware using scanline.
Not just Linus being bullhead. He shot himself in the foot by sticking to a fixed GPLv2 license. AFAIK to relicense to GPLv3 would require contacting all authors to see if they accept the change of license. Which is how many hundreds of people?
Wrong. Raytracing supports soft shadows.
Radiosity is just an algorithm that achieves diffuse interreflections. There are others, such as photon mapping.
It is easier to program reflections and refractions on a raytracer. The artist does not need to make reflection maps either. Not to mention said maps are hacks which only work for static geometry...
There was a time people used 2D vector graphics because memory was expensive. Then 2D bitmapped displays started being used, but 3D scanline renderers were common, because a Z-Buffer used large amounts of memory. Now Z-Buffers are used.
As processing power gets cheaper raytracing will be increasingly more used. As memory gets cheaper and scenes more complex, with pixel sized triangles, voxel models will replace triangle based models.
Healthier bullshit. All vegetarians I know are not healthier. Quite the opposite in fact. I only need to look at their pale grayish skin and anemic physical condition. That says everything.
I have eaten vegetarian burgers. They are edible, but neither taste like meat nor like anything good. Heck even bread, without anything in it, tastes better.
AFAIK Star Wars IV used hand made models for the ships and everything was done with traditional film effects techniques. Tron did use ray-tracing since the graphics were done using computer effects by MAGI.
There is always going to be room for software contractor work. The world is not static, so neither can be software. Selling software per se as a business may die though.
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Actually, an alternative to Visual Studio for Linux (and other platforms) is Eclipse. It supports Java, C, C++, PHP, Python (with the Pydev plugin) and more. Coming with a "stack" or not is irrelevant. Ubuntu, for one, has all of this (OS, bindings, Eclipse, Pydev, etc) so IMO it is more integrated than Windows+Visual Studio, rather than less.
pygtk is simple to use. There are multiple development environments and languages in Windows as well, if you see a problem there it is a matter of perspective.
Still suits? The whole station is a suit. This has been done since Salyut and Mir. The stilling is done by environmental control. Elektron oxygen generators then generate oxygen by splitting it from water.
The Russian segments for ISS were launched with Proton, not Soyuz. Proton launches 46000 lb to LEO.
The Soviet Energia, if it was still in production, would have 194000 lb to LEO capability. The US Saturn V used to launch Skylab could put 165000 lb in LEO.
You're replying to a Trekkie dude.
Group by customer? What is wrong by searching by his e-mail address? It can even be in the address list.
Uhuh... That is disingenuous at best, it is still a commercial product.
OpenOffice can be "commercial" if it is being distributed with a paid for Linux distro or with an Asus Eee PC for example. The fact remains that this license is more restrictive than the Adobe PDF license. I won't even mention the ODF license.
All it takes is for the download to be hosted at a website with ads for something to be considered commercial. This is little better than the MP3 or GIF licenses. This license is counter to the GPL, adding further restrictions, so any GPLed product cannot use it.
Your maths are way off. Not to mention that currently mass market available solar panels have twice that efficiency and a solar thermal power is much more efficient than that.
There are new wind plants popping up everywhere. Just do some research. There is currently a wind turbine shortage in the market. Solar thermal power has plenty of potential once it gets to mass production.
A concentrating solar thermal plant uses zero solar panels.
Only example I know of something flying with PDE is Long-EZ and the technology still has a ways to go.
Places where the lights are on for a long time are better suited for fluorescent lighting. Make sure to get good bulbs: they last longer and end up being cheaper in the long run. The color spectrum of cheap fluorescents is usually terrible too. That should cut power consumption a lot. I do not know how is the weather where you live, but different housing construction can reduce the AC requirement a lot. Most people here live without AC.
I remember trueSpace from when I had my Amiga computer. Back then it was called Caligari and had one of the easiest to use 3D modellers. Seems like RealSoft is also still around. Not to mention NewTek's LightWave of course.
RenderMan uses the scanline algorithm, but your graphics board doesn't use that. It uses the Z-Buffer algorithm. I suspect RenderMan only uses scanline for historic reasons. Scanline was mainly used when memory was expensive and RenderMan is decades old. Remember military simulators with Evans and Sutherland graphics? That was probably the last realtime hardware using scanline.
Not just Linus being bullhead. He shot himself in the foot by sticking to a fixed GPLv2 license. AFAIK to relicense to GPLv3 would require contacting all authors to see if they accept the change of license. Which is how many hundreds of people?
Actually I believe they got sockets right... it only took them 2 or 3 iterations of the API. :-)
I dunno, I actually like Mars candy bars and they are not green.
Wrong. Raytracing supports soft shadows. Radiosity is just an algorithm that achieves diffuse interreflections. There are others, such as photon mapping. It is easier to program reflections and refractions on a raytracer. The artist does not need to make reflection maps either. Not to mention said maps are hacks which only work for static geometry... There was a time people used 2D vector graphics because memory was expensive. Then 2D bitmapped displays started being used, but 3D scanline renderers were common, because a Z-Buffer used large amounts of memory. Now Z-Buffers are used. As processing power gets cheaper raytracing will be increasingly more used. As memory gets cheaper and scenes more complex, with pixel sized triangles, voxel models will replace triangle based models.
I have eaten vegetarian burgers. They are edible, but neither taste like meat nor like anything good. Heck even bread, without anything in it, tastes better.
AFAIK Star Wars IV used hand made models for the ships and everything was done with traditional film effects techniques. Tron did use ray-tracing since the graphics were done using computer effects by MAGI.
At least I can give and re-sell those pieces of $50 paper after someone used them. Not Windows.
Nothing special. The USA has MILSTAR satellites to do the same thing. What's in a name anyway.
There is always going to be room for software contractor work. The world is not static, so neither can be software. Selling software per se as a business may die though.